Four Arrested, Prohibitory Orders Imposed in India’s Karnataka After Clashes - Videos

© AFP 2023 / MANJUNATH KIRANPolice personnel stand in front of the Karnataka High Court in Bangalore on March 15, 2022, after the court upheld a local ban on the hijab in classrooms, weeks after the edict stoked violent protests and renewed fears of discrimination against the country's Muslim minority.
Police personnel stand in front of the Karnataka High Court in Bangalore on March 15, 2022, after the court upheld a local ban on the hijab in classrooms, weeks after the edict stoked violent protests and renewed fears of discrimination against the country's Muslim minority. - Sputnik International, 1920, 16.08.2022
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Clashes reportedly broke out after locals removed a poster of Hindutva leader Vinayak Damodar Savarkar and replaced it with one of Tipu Sultan, an 18th century ruler who fought against the British and was killed in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War.
Four people have been arrested in Shivmogga city in India's Karnataka state for allegedly stabbing a man amid tensions over a banner featuring an image of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, police said on Tuesday.
Savarkar was a politician, and is valued as one of the biggest freedom struggle icons by the federally governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
One of the accused suffered a bullet wound in the leg during the police operation to take them into custody, as he allegedly tried to attack an officer.

Policed confiscated the poster and it was later replaced with the Indian national flag.

There has been a massive controversy in the state over celebrating Tipu Sultan, as the BJP and its ideological parent organization Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh considers him a brutal king who persecuted Hindus and Christians.
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